GEAR November 16, 2015

 

Meeting Date: November 16, 2015

Our president, Jeff Miller opened the meeting with the singing of O Canada and Rotary Grace.

We were pleased to welcome Art Oakes

 

 

 

Sergeant-at-Arms:     Ron Miller                    

Happy Bucks:  Russell Hood, Sad Bucks Ron Miller

The weekly accumulator draw this week was for $24.50. Art Oakes drew the King of Diamonds.

Guest Speaker:  Stefano Grande, Exc. Director, Downtown Biz was introduced by Steve Demmings. Stefano spoke about how much our downtown has changed over the past ten years, and how the number of people living in the downtown has increased to over 16,000. Development for the next five years is going to continue at our current pace. They are projecting that by 2020 we will have over 20,000 living in the downtown area.

Stefano said that some of the goals for the Downtown Biz were: Safety, Development, Transportation, Image and cleanliness. Steve Gallagher thanked Stefano for taking the time to come and speak to us.

Our Remembrance Day Lunch at Rotary Villa was a success and was well attended. Our Guest Speaker, newly elected Liberal Member Robert-Falcon Ouellette gave about 15 minute talk about some of his experiences in the military and about the difficulty of losing follow members during our current military missions overseas. His talk was very well received by all in attendance. One of our members said it was the best Speaker that he had heard at a Remembrance Day Celebration.

 

                                                                                                                                             Upcoming Events:

Board Meeting at 11 a.m. on Monday November 23^rd.

 

November 23, 2015 JD Davidson and Donald Fletcher